She adds: "I will cry about something but I never let anything stop me. I can't be like my mom. I know I can cut ties and still make it. She didn't cut ties when [she] should have." »1/26/11 5:08pm 1/26/11 5:08pm

In addition to the obvious racist and xenophobic implications of the new Arizona immigration law, in addition to the obvious concerns that this unlawful law targets residents based on the hue of their skin and the language on their lips… »6/02/10 12:30pm 6/02/10 12:30pm

15 years after the Violence Against Women Act, what's the next step toward helping the 1.5 million women assaulted by domestic partners every year? Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert at Newsweek explore that question, but the answer remains unclear. »9/16/09 5:20pm 9/16/09 5:20pm

Lawmakers in the UK are considering legislation that would require police to monitor repeat abusers in the same way that they do pedophiles - which includes informing future girlfriends of possible risk. [Guardian] »3/09/09 9:40am 3/09/09 9:40am

Leslie Morgan Steiner's memoir details how she was assaulted 20 times before leaving her abusive marriage. In a Q&A with Newsweek she says: "I thought it only happened to poor women with children and without options." »2/20/09 1:00pm 2/20/09 1:00pm

At Slate, Robert Weintraub notes some unfortunate Super Bowl trivia: "The big game's two biggest stars, [Santonio] Holmes and [Larry] Fitzgerald, have both been accused of domestic assault." So why aren't we talking about it? »2/02/09 5:00pm 2/02/09 5:00pm

Yesterday we wrote about
an adoptive mother »11/17/08 2:00pm 11/17/08 2:00pm named Yvette Maguire who gave her child back after a mere two weeks with the boy, because, as she said, "I felt no bond with him whatsoever. People were brutal towards Maguire for what they considered to be terrible mothering, and today that Nixzaliz Santiago, the mother of…

According to the most recent government statistics, 600,000 women are looking to adopt children to whom they are not related. 129,000 foster children are waiting to be adopted, and only 8,000 were adopted last year by parents to whom they had no prior relationship. In the
Washington Post »11/10/08 9:30am 11/10/08 9:30am, adoption advocate Jeff Katz …

Newspapers across the world are beginning to report on a spate of
"honor killings" »9/02/08 9:30am 9/02/08 9:30am that were perpetrated in the rural Balochistan province of Pakistan in July. According to , the five women — three of whom were teens — were buried alive as punishment for "willfulness." The that they were killed "after the women…

There are few countries in the world that have clean hands when it comes to the rights of indigenous peoples. From our own treatment of Native Americans to the behavior of the Chinese in Tibet and beyond, there too often has been and too often remains an us-and-them mentality on both sides that is harmful for all…
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